ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,975, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment (UE) mobility between a non-terrestrial network (NTN) and a terrestrial network (TN)" was invented by Jae Ho Ryu (San Diego), Changhwan Park (San Diego), Liangping Ma (San Diego), Bharat Shrestha (San Diego) and Hari Sankar (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may support mobility between a non-terrestrial network (NTN) cell and a terrestrial network (TN) cell. If the UE is connected to an NTN cell, the UE may determine timing for a neig...